One mission would send a state-of-the-art lunar rover, in development by Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), to the moon aboard a Starship cargo lander as soon as fiscal year 2032.

The autonomous 55-pound (25-kilogram) rover is called IDEFIX and is part of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) probe that aims to collect samples of the ...

JAXA is building the 350-kilogram rover, and India’s space agency ISRO is developing the lander which will deliver LUPEX to the Moon’s south pole. China will launch the Chang’e 7 mission around 2024.

Firefly's Blue Ghost lander, originally scheduled to lift off in late 2024, is on its maiden voyage. The uncrewed spacecraft ...

Nissan and JAXA jointly developed the prototype of the unmanned moon rover. The vehicle is powered by four motors and has lithium-ion batteries. The all-wheel technology that powers both the front ...

Image: LPI In fact, for its next Moon mission, which is planned to launch before the end of the decade, JAXA is partnering with ISRO to have its LUPEX rover directly study the nature, abundance and ...

JAXA researcher Kawai Yuta says he can't wait ... ispace is part of a private-sector boom in lunar exploration. A lunar rover the firm developed was a finalist in a contest run by entities ...

“Takara–Tomy benefits by advertizing how these robots will be used on the Moon and from selling replicas, while JAXA benefits from gaining robots to explore the lunar surface,” he explains.

A Japanese startup launched an uncrewed lunar lander from the United States on Dec. 11 in a quest to become the first private-sector company to land a spacecraft on the moon. The craft developed ...

The origins of LUPEX date back to December 2017 when ISRO and JAXA formally inked an Implementation ... of collaborative efforts to investigate the Moon's polar areas, particularly with an ...